In previous years, "Ask the Developers" has been a popular and wildly successful Wikimania topic. However, since Wikimania 2011, the Operations team has exploded onto the scene, more than doubling its size and vastly expanding its scope and duties. While developers write the MediaWiki software, the Operations team makes sure that Wikipedia and its sibling sites are up and available to you to edit. Here is your opportunity to ask the Operations team all of your burning questions such as:

How do you do your job?

How does Wikipedia stay up?

Why does Wikipedia go down?

Why did it take so long to move away from GoDaddy?

Why do some changes that seem like they should be quick seem to take forever?